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Posts published in March 2022

Our Times: Fluoxetine Forever

Muckraking is an exercise in futility. The exposés get published, the authors may or may not get rewarded for their research and risk-taking, the evil-doers might have to slow down. But in due course the…

Water On Her Mind

Born in St. Louis near the Mississippi River, the author, teacher and ecologist, Jane Wolff, lives and works in Ontario, Canada. “Up stream” is how she describes her current location. “Water is key,” she adds.…

Mendocino County Today: Sunday, March 20, 2022

Warming | Let's Talk | Spring | Mariupol | Pet Truman | Hospital Budget | Fort Bragg | Ed Notes | 1972 Newsletter | Insurance Racket | Skeletons | Painting Class | Mendo Chosen | Medical Debt | Skunk Application | Albion Kids | AV Village | Sleepy Jack | Yesterday's Catch | Siphon Horizon | Purple Onions | Bulletdoogle | Capitalism | Revolution | Lumber Crane | Wires Underground | Cheerful Credit | Dogging | Russian Imperialism | Wagon Train | Marco Radio | Tourist Fidel | Managing Craig | Lifeguard Reagan | Cataclysmic Age | Jean MacCallum

Teachers Exam, 1892

One hundred thirty years ago a one room schoolhouse existed a half mile down the hill and nearly a quarter mile rest from where I live now. The back of the school building sat almost…

Driving Around Anderson Valley

I spent a lot of time in my car this past week. Some weeks are like that - I have many appointments and they take me all over the place; other weeks I spend more…

Mendocino County Today: Saturday, March 19, 2022

Wet Cold | 9 New Cases | Ukraine Update | Fundraiser | In Kyiv | Willits 1907 | Shoddy Contractor | Kitchen Hiring | Schools Update | Diamond D | EMS Funding | Pomo Land | Folk Songs | Dog Poop | Northwestern Mill | Ed Notes | Police Reports | Gang Bench | Yesterday's Catch | Thrown Money | Tom Mix | Brown Act | Billionaire Yacht | CAO Retiring | Bernhardt's Room | Rip Van Stehr | Ukiah Riflemen | Percolating Variables | Sidewalk Ends | Every Birdwatcher | Weak Evidence | New Dick | Sporting Couple | Peewee Peedee | Spinning Wheels | Salad U | Marco Radio | Pomeroy | San Bruno Mt | Night Watchman | Undergrounding | Medicine Man | Museum Boogaloo | iNaturalist Walk | Ukiah Couple | War Crimes | DST Bad

An Interview with Superintendent Simson

I interviewed Louise Simson Superintendent of Anderson Valley Unified School District in her office at the administration building next to the Elementary school. She is a very high-energy and enthusiastic woman. Her style is informal…

Jules Tavernier & The Elem

A striking 19th century Jules Tavernier painting at first glance seems focused solely on native Pomo dancers performing before a large group of Elem Colony indigenous people gathered in an underground roundhouse on the eastern…

Mendocino County Today: Friday, March 18, 2022

Dry Day | 1917 Ukiah | Ortner Subpoenaed | Zantedeschia | No Covid | Craft Fair | Ukiah Shelter | Relief Bouquets | Goodnight Weed | Rainbow | Ed Notes | Orr Cleanup | Insect Protein | Yesterday's Catch | Gas/Coffee | Water Resource | Solar Median | General Zhukov | Equestrienne | Art Talk | Soviet Hero | Podhoretz Yapping | Strangling Sunflowers | Corrupt Elite | Bee/Flower | Ukraine Documentaries | Delbert Phelps | War Cheerleaders | Stumped | Russian Reparations | Donnie Dollar | Wylie Unfit | Container Huts | Ukiah's Embrace | Trump Gang | Disinfo Admission | Rosemary

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